Iceland
On November 21, 1973, the American plane C-47 SkyTrain made an emergency landing on the beach south of Iceland due to bad weather and fuel shortages.
H.M.S. Vindictive
On the night of 10 May 1918, the British army attempted to block the Ostend harbour channel so that German submarines could no longer sail out.
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